Product Description

Teaching others the essential truths of Christianity will challenge you, but nothing can beat the rewards of seeing men and women gain transforming, biblical perspective on God, the world around them, and their own lives and relationships. Foundations Teacher's Guide, Volume 1 greatly simplifies your job with its easy-to-follow format. Everything you need to teach the introductory session and lessons 1-10 of the 24-session Foundations curriculum is clearly and methodically laid out for you, with tools, tips, and options to help you meet the unique needs of your group.

Publisher's Description

A Purpose-Driven® Discipleship Resource Ideal for Sunday-Night or midweek series, Weekday Bible Studies, Sunday school classes, and study groups of any size. The complete communicators resource for teaching Saddleback Churchs blockbuster Foundations course in your church or group Teaching others the essential truths of Christianity will challenge you, but nothing can beat the rewards of seeing men and women gain a transforming, biblical perspective on God, the world around them, and their own lives and relationships. Foundations Teachers Guide, Volume 1 greatly simplifies your job with its easy-to-follow format. Everything you need to teach the introductory session and lessons 110 of the 24-session Foundations curriculum is clearly and methodically laid out for you, with tools, tips, and options to help you meet the unique needs of your group.  Teaching notesExtensive notes guide you through what you will say and include illustrations and applications of each doctrine under discussion.  Highlight sectionsFour kinds of sidebars help your group connect with Gods truths through key words, thought-provoking insights, personal implications, and personal applications.  Teaching tipsProven tips help you strengthen your skills as a communicator.  Discussion questionsQuestions at the end of each study can also be interspersed throughout the lesson.  Split-session planEach lesson has an optional cutoff point that allows you to break it into two sessions. Subdivide a single lesson, several lessons, or break the entire program into 46 lessons at your discretion.  AppendicesAdditional, supporting material for some studies may be found at the end of those studies.  Memory cardsReproducible cards contain a key theme and verse for each of the 11 doctrines covered. This teachers guide also includes icons to guide your use of the PowerPoint® slides contained in the CD-ROM (included in the kit and also sold separately). Foundations will take your group for thought-provoking, life-changing explorations of 11 core Christian truths: 1. The Bible 2. God 3. Jesus 4. The Holy Spirit 5. Creation 6. Salvation 7. Sanctification 8. Good and Evil 9. The Afterlife 10. The Church 11. The Second Coming From Saddleback Church This is a proven, tested curriculum that has helped change thousands of lives! For the past ten years, Foundations, has been used as the doctrinal course at Saddleback Church, one of America's largest and best-known churches. Thousands of Saddleback members have benefited from this life-transforming experience. This course is explained in detail in Rick Warren's groundbreaking book, The Purpose Driven Church. Currently, Purpose Driven churches all around the world are using Foundations to raise up an army of mature believers equipped for ministry in the church and prepared for mission in the world. Foundations kit includes:  2 Teachers Guides (volumes 1 & 2)  1 Participants Guide  1 CD-ROM with PowerPoint® notes, programming resources, and additional handouts All materials also sold separately

Author Bio

Tom and Chaundel Holladay have three children and two grandchildren and have served together at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, for over twenty years.

Tom, in addition to his pastoral leadership and weekend teaching ministries, is a part of Saddlebacks ministry of training church leaders around the world and produces a weekly podcast through the Bible at drivetimedevotions.com He is author of TheRelationship Principles of Jesus and, with Kay Warren, Foundations: 11 Core Truths to Build Your Life On.

Kay Warren cofounded Saddleback Church with her husband, Rick Warren, in Lake Forest, California. She is a passionate Bible teacher and respected advocate for those living with HIV & AIDS, orphaned and vulnerable children, as well as for those affected by a mental illness. She founded Saddleback's HIV & AIDS Initiative. Kay is the author of Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough, Say Yes to God and coauthor of Foundations, the popular systematic theology course used by churches worldwide. Her children are Amy and Josh, and Matthew who is in Heaven; she has five grandchildren.

Excellent for the unproven or uncertain leader. Warren and Holladay have made it very easy for those not comfortable with seeing themselves as "teachers" to nonetheless guide anyone through their excellent participants' guide book. Some of the anecdotes are less than mesmerizing. But overall, they've done their job superbly -- making it possible for lay people (like me) to lead others through the very best, core and crucial doctrines of the Bible.

I am a youth pastor and it is always a challenge in determining what is valuable in the curriculum that is published. Foundations is a great series to use in order to show the foundational principles in Christianity. We are using this series in our Youth Sunday School and it is great. I would highly recommend it to anyone.